Jury Selection Underway in Johnstown Priest's Sex Tourism Case

By Torsten Ove
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
September 8, 2015

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/east/2015/09/08/Jury-selection-underway-in-trial-of-Johnstown-priest-charged-with-sex-abuse-maurizio/stories/201509080127

Jury selection is underway in the federal trial in Johnstown of a suspended Catholic priest accused of traveling to Honduras to molest young boys during missionary trips.

The Rev. Joseph Maurizio, 70, formerly pastor at Our Lady Queen of Angels in Somerset County, is charged with engaging in illicit sex in foreign places, possession of child pornography and transferring money into and out of the country for unlawful purposes.

Jury selection in U.S. District Court is expected to take all of today and part of Wednesday. The trial is projected to last three weeks.